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03836aam a2200397Mi 4500 001 0D04115AFCE811E799AF106097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180119010249 008 160914s2017 miua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781580442602 020 $a 1580442609 035 $a (OCoLC)958355972 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d TFW $d OCLCO $d UUM $d OCLCF $d CUZ $d EXW $d SILO 050 4 $a GV1200 $b .P53 2017 082 04 $a 940.2 245 00 $a Playthings in early modernity : $b party games, word games, mind games / $c edited by Allison Levy. 260 $a Kalamazoo : $b Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, $c 2017. 300 $a xiv, 335 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 490 1 $a Ludic cultures, 1100-1700 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-319) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy -- Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood -- "Mixt" and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock -- Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry -- Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera -- The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger -- "Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis -- Predictive play : wheels of fortune in the early modern lottery book / Jessen Kelly -- Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco -- Trading and trick taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin -- The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer -- Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : geography and playing cards in early modern England / Serina Patterson -- Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter -- Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas / Nhora LuciÌa Serrano -- The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O'Banion. 520 8 $a Contains fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory. Emphasized in these essays are the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. The titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavour. 650 0 $a Games $z Europe $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Amusements $z Europe $x History $y 16th century. 651 0 $a Europe $x Social life and customs $y 16th century. 650 7 $a Amusements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00808105 650 7 $a Games. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00937529 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 $a 1500-1599 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Levy, Allison M. $q (Allison Mary), $d 1968- $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001034416 830 0 $a Ludic cultures, 1100-1700. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217020818.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0D04115AFCE811E799AF106097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search